Angry Drunk Go Boom

February 5th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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You may have noticed a cer­tain lack of Angry Drunkenness for the last sev­eral hours. The bot­tom line is that a com­bi­na­tion of my data­base cor­rupt­ing for no obvi­ous rea­son and an unknown issue pre­vent­ing me from access­ing my web­host to restore from a backup left the site in fucksville. Things look ok for now, but the last two posts were lost. I restored them from a redun­dant backup, but the link to Disqus was bro­ken. Hopefully that can be fixed eventually.

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Mike Monteiro Fucking Gets It

February 5th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk

Add Mike Monteiro to the list of peo­ple who actu­ally under­stand the iPad. The money quote:

The peo­ple don’t want “tablet com­put­ers” with Ubuntu and OpenID (worst name ever for a prod­uct attempt­ing broad accep­tance). They could hon­estly give a shit whether it’s a closed or open sys­tem. And, let’s be really hon­est, they prob­a­bly care as much about DRM as they do about base­ball play­ers juic­ing; by which I mean not very much at all. They want things to work most of the time, and be easy to fix when they don’t. And if the process by which it hap­pens is “magic” they are totally cool with that.

They want the thing in the movies.

This is a con­cept that’s been bang­ing around in my head for a while now. Ask most geeks if, given the oppor­tu­nity, they would want a device like the PADD from Star Trek. Hell, ask them if they would want the whole Star Trek com­put­ing expe­ri­ence (“Computer, down­load all avail­able pornog­ra­phy with the key­words, ‘asian,’ ‘big tit­ties’ and ‘les­bian’”). I think most would say yes. But, when con­fronted with what well may be the gen­e­sis of that model, they run

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iPad Dismissal

February 5th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk

Fraser Speirs nails it yet again with a blog post titled iPad Fallacy #1: “It’s not for con­tent cre­ation”. In the post he poses the question:

I keep hear­ing this thing on the web that the iPad is “a con­sump­tion device, not a cre­ation device”. I don’t know why peo­ple keep say­ing that. It’s fast enough, it has enough stor­age and it has some seri­ously pow­er­ful appli­ca­tions. If that’s your opin­ion, please enlighten me in the comments.

Fraser con­tin­ues on to com­pletely debunk this fal­lacy by show­ing screen­shots from Apple’s iWork demon­stra­tions dur­ing the intro­duc­tory event. To me though, the really inter­est­ing thing is answer­ing the ques­tion that Fraser poses: “Why do peo­ple keep say­ing that?” I think that, in many cases, the rea­son peo­ple keep mak­ing that claim is actu­ally an off-shoot of the same “Future Shock” that Fraser him­self described before. Or, to pimp my own work, I think that state­ments that the iPad is “just for con­tent con­sump­tion” are fur­ther exam­ples of nerd myopia.

Like most things in the real world, responses to the iPad are not a sim­ple binary “love it” or “hate it” propo­si­tion. In between the peo­ple who dis­miss the iPad

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